Saif Class (US Garcia)
The Saif (Garcia) class frigates were leased by Pakistan from the United States for a 5-year term. Due to the Pressler Amendment, which denied Pakistan any further financial and military assistance for pursuing a military nuclear program, Pakistan had to return four Brooke (Badr)-class and four Garcia (Saif)-class frigates to the United States at the end of their lease in 1993.
Specifications |
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| Power Plant | One steam turbine
(Westinghouse in Garcia, Brumby; GE in others) Two Foster Wheeler 1,200-psi pressure-fired boilers |
| Length | 514 ft |
| Beam | 45 ft |
| Draft | 25 ft |
| Displacement | 2624 tons standard
3560 tons full load |
| Speed | 27 knots |
| Complement | 19 Officers, 200 Sailors |
| Armament | ASROCs (RUR-5A) in one 8-tube Mk 16 launcher
Six 12.75-inch torpedoes in two triple Mk 32 launchers Two 5-inch Mk 30 dual-purpose guns |
| Ships | |||||||||
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| Previous Name | Builders | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Decomm | Leased | Returned | ||
| Kharbar | Brumby | Avondale Shipyard, LA | 1 Aug 1963 | 6 Jun 1964 | 5 Aug 1965 | 31 Mar 1989 | 31 Mar 1989 | 14 Nov 1993
(scrapped) |
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| Saif | Garcia | Bethlehem Steel, NJ | 16 Oct 1962 | 31 Oct 1963 | 21 Dec 1964 | 31 Jan 1989 | 31 Jan 1989 | 13 Jan 1994
(reserve/scrapped) |
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| Siqqat | Koelsch | Defoe Shipbuilding, MI | 19 Feb 1965 | 8 Jun 1965 | 10 Jun 1967 | 31 May 1989 | May 1989 | 1993
(scrapped) |
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| N/A | O'Callaghan | Defoe Shipbuilding, MI | 19 Feb 1964 | 20 Oct 1965 | 13 Jul 1968 | 20 Dec 1988 | 8 Feb 1993 | Nov 1993
(scrapped) |
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